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If a person had a mild headache or sore throat, it was normal for a physician to open a vein and let the blood flow.
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Creation of amalgams for dental procedures. A text from the year 659 shows the first use of a substance for tooth fillings, which was made up of silver and tin.
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Suggests that blood is the cause of multiple diseases.
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Physicians were licensed after formal training with experienced doctors. Physicians and surgeons received different training.
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By the end of the 13th century, eyeglasses were well known in Italy and worn by people who had bad vision.
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In the year 1315 the Italian physician Mondino de Luzzi even conducted a public dissection for his students and spectators.
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Massive disease that wiped out England's population. Rats carried the disease. Most remedies did not work and there were multiple different ones.
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invented and designed the bird like mask worn by doctors during the Black Plague. The beak shaped mask was filled with medicinal herbs that were supposed to prevent the disease, however they did not work.
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Founded the antiseptic method-where wounds were to be cleaned and then sutured to promote healing. He had bandages that were pre-soaked in wine as a form of disinfectant.
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Surgical procedure that is supposed to help with depression, epilepsy, and migraines.
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anatomist and surgeon that prepared a human and animal anatomy atlas. This work includes illustrations from many different artists and he is credited for providing a turning point in anatomical illustration.
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invented the obstetrical forceps, used to free a baby from the womb during a difficult birth without hurting or killing baby or mother.
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was the first person to properly describe the systematic circulation and properties of blood and how the heart pumps around the body.
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The first English handbook by a woman was The Midwives Book by Mrs Jane Sharp in 1671.
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Jenner inserted pus taken from a cowpox pustule into the arm of James Phipps, an 8-year old boy. He then proved that Phipps was immune to smallpox because of the cowpox vaccine
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anesthetic properties of nitro-us oxide
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Invented the stethoscope.
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Typhoid is a disease that inflames the intestines. It is spread through contact with the infection, so can be carried in water, or passed on through contact with an infected person.
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Children had to work all of the time and would often get injured because of the dangerous machinery that they worked.
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the telegraph was invented to get information from one place to another, This can help in the medical field to get certain information to others.
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the AIDS disease began to rapidly grow again in the 90's.
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more than three dozen health-care reform bills were introduced in the U.S. Congress. None of them passed. The following year, President George H. W. Bush presented a health-care reform plan that promised to provide coverage for the more than thirty-five million Americans without health insurance and to stop the spiraling costs for the Medicare system.
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This is used in gastrointesinal diagnostic procedures. it has a camera om it so you can see the inside.
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a heart attack is all about speed: speed the patient to the hospital so that a clot that blocks the life-saving flow of blood can be "busted" with drugs like the genetically engineered tissue plasminogen activator or tPA.
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scientists in with the International Human Genome Project released a rough draft of the human genome to the public. For the first time the world could read the complete set of human genetic information and begin to discover what our roughly 23,000 genes do.
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in 2003 there were only 75 cities in the US that prohibited smoking in workplaces, bars, and restaurants.
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transfer someone's face to another person's face if they were in an accident or some other event.
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this vaccine prevents against the 4 strains of hpv that can trigger cervical cancer.
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the first completely new synthetic cells were created by stitching together chemicals to synthesise the full genome of a bacterium. This could open the way to new treatments in synthetic biology that could have applications in a range of industries, from biofuels to healthcare.
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in 2013, a company called NeuroPace revolutionised epilepsy therapy by developing the RNS System; the world’s first closed loop, brain-responsive neuromodulation system.
